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Mahler wrote his first complete song cycle, "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" for middle voice and piano, following a
failed relationship with Johanna Richter between July 1883 and beginning of 1884.
Arnold Schoenberg who was a great admirer of Mahler, made the reduced version of the "Lieder eines fahrenden
Gesellen", for flute and clarinet, harmonium, piano, triangle, glockenspiel and string quintet, for his Society for Private
Musical Performances (Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen), founded in Vienna in 1918 to promote the
circulation of contemporary works.
In summer 1901, while he was working on his Fifth Symphony, Mahler set seven of Rückert’s poems, including three
of his "Kindertotenlieder". In 1904 he completed his cycle of the same name by adding settings of two more texts from
the collection to the three already set.
Intended for medium voice and – for Mahler- an unusually small-scale orchestra, the "Kindertotenlieder" were first
performed in Vienna on 29 January 1905 by the baritone Friedrich Weidemann, with the composer conducting.
Cast :
Musici Aurei
Luigi Piovano, cello & conductor
Sara Mingardo, contralto
Grazia Raimondi, violin
Silvio Di Rocco, viola
Olaf Laneri, piano
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